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Carol's avatar

I am a librarian, and have seen these attacks many, many times, but what is interesting to me is when you link the states which continually try to limit kids access to information to that state's health and social ranking you can see a surprising correlation.

For example, Oklahoma. This state is rated 45th by America’s Health Rankings americashealthrankings.org because of its low graduation rate, drug deaths, low birth weight, low voter participation, adverse childhood experiences, avoided care due to cost, high teen birth rate, food insecurity, physical inactivity, high smoking rate, frequent mental distress…need I go on?

Perhaps their elected officials should spend more time and money on these issues rather than on books that just might help kids overcome some of these issues. Just my thought bubble for the day.

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Joseph Mangano's avatar

Conservatives are ready to "protect" our children from "controversial" topics but not from COVID. #Priorities

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